Accounting Manager

The role

This person will manage accounting operations for Hong Kong, Singapore, and China entities. They will focus on month-end close, financial reporting, tax compliance, and income statement analysis.

What you will do

• Perform month-end closing including revenue recognition, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Perform detailed monthly income statement analysis to explain revenue and cost movements.
• Ensure departmental costs are accurately recorded, coded, and allocated to cost centres.
• Review and deliver monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and management reports.
• Support statutory and group audit processes.
• Manage tax filing obligations across Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.
• Partner with operational teams on cost budgeting and reforecasting.
• Identify opportunities to drive cost optimisation.
• Partner with global finance teams and external service providers on group reporting and consolidation.
• Maintain internal controls and accounting policies and drive process improvements.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related discipline from a recognised university.
• A recognised professional accounting qualification (e.g. HKICPA, ACCA, CPA).
• Over 10 years of relevant accounting experience.
• Solid technical accounting knowledge with experience applying US GAAP and/or IFRS/HKFRS.
• Strong analytical skills in income statement analysis.
• Proven experience supporting statutory audits and managing tax filings across multiple jurisdictions.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to guide and support junior team members.
• Hands-on and highly organised to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in a professional services or multinational environment.
• Audit firm experience.
• Familiarity with Singapore GST and China VAT filing.
• Experience with ERP or accounting systems such as NetSuite.
• Treasury experience.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Cantonese.
• Mandarin proficiency.

About the company

FGS Global helps the world's most influential leaders move minds and markets. They advise CEOs, boards, and leadership teams across 31 global offices.